Hindsight Markets Recaps Small-cap stocks on October 29, 2026
TDOC, October 29: news and $8.99
TDOC opened up 16% after news, ran to $8.99, and held most of the move into the close.
News via Stock News API
What happened
Before the open
The news came first: news at 7:30 a.m. Before the bell it reached $7.96, on 274K shares.
The open
It opened up 16%, at $8.00. It ran to $8.99 by 9:46 a.m.
The close
It closed at $8.72, near its high.
What to take from it: A gap that holds above its open can keep going: this one held most of its move to the close.
The details
How it traded, step by step
Gap and go. It gapped up 16.3% to $8.00 at the open, ran from the open to the high of $8.99 in 16 minutes, and held most of the move into the close: it gave back 27% of it by 4:00 p.m.
| Time (ET) | What happened |
|---|---|
| 4:06 a.m. | News (MarketBeat): Teladoc Health Q3 Earnings Call Highlights |
| 5:18 a.m. | News (Seeking Alpha): Teladoc Health, Inc. (TDOC) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript |
| 7:30 a.m. | News (Benzinga): Teladoc Stock Rallies After Double Beat; Lifts FY26 GAAP EPS Outlook |
| 9:29 a.m. | Pre-market high, $7.96 |
| 9:30 a.m. | The open: $8.00, up 16.3% from the previous close |
| 9:31 a.m. | First trade 20% above the previous close of $6.88 |
| 9:46 a.m. | High of the day to the close, $8.99 |
| 3:59 p.m. | Last trade before the 4:00 p.m. close, $8.72, 3.0% below the high |
The shape's name comes from a fixed rule, not a judgement (how shapes are named). Halts are in the halt table below.
The day in numbers
- Previous close
- $6.88
- Open, 9:30 a.m.
- $8.00
- Gap at the open
- +16.3%
- Pre-market high
- $7.96 at 9:29 a.m.
- High, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $8.99 at 9:46 a.m.
- Low, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- $7.35
- Close, 4 p.m.
- $8.72
- Change at 4 p.m.
- +26.7%
- After-hours high, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- $8.79 at 6:45 p.m.
- Volume, 4 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- 9.97 million
- Volume after hours, 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.
- 1.21 million
- Relative volume by 8 p.m.
- 4.7×
- Float
- 180.94 million shares, from filings as of October 29, 2026
- Shares outstanding
- 182.29 million
- From news to the move: the first trade 20% above the previous close came 2 hours after the latest news item before it (Benzinga, 7:30 a.m.).
- Volume, from the one-minute bars: 274,488 shares before the 9:30 a.m. open (2%), 2.12 million in the first 30 minutes (19%), and 8.78 million in the rest of the day to 8 p.m. (79%).
- In our recaps, this is the only day TDOC met the small-cap rule.
On the day's lists: the intraday runners. It is here because it was in play on the intraday runners: up 30% or more on $3 million or more really traded, outside the small-cap rule's price, relative volume or float, its high reached $1 or more and it started the day at $20 or under (the rule every page uses).
Halts (none)
The exchange's halt feed shows no halts for TDOC that day.
Halt bands that day: the LULD plan's Amendment 18 rules (what that means, LULD calculator).
How we read the data, name a day's shape and pick the stocks: methodology.
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